The most common route of transmission for Zygomycetes fungi is inhalation of spores from the environment. Patients at highest risk for infections caused by Mucorales fungi include those with ...

At a town meeting last year, Beth Downs held up photos from Tennessee and Kentucky, showing stop signs and trees covered in an ugly black mold called whiskey fungus.

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

A fungus that causes genital infections has seen a spike in cases in New York City, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. The fungus, named Trichophyton mentagrophytes ...

Learn more › Bleeding tooth fungus looks like a ghoulish forest crime scene. This type of mushroom called Hydnellum peckii also goes by “devil’s tooth fungus” or the much more pleasant ...

Wildlife officials confirmed the presence in California of a bat-killing fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Millions of bats in North America have died from white-nose syndrome. California ...

Nicole Hynson In order to grow robust saplings that can bolster the species in the wild, Hynson’s team is wielding an emerging tool in the arsenal of plant conservation: mycorrhizal fungi.

A sinister fungus is spreading through California’s bat populations, threatening their survival just as the spooky season takes flight. (Nenad Milosevic/Unsplash) First detected on the East Coast ...

Well, it’s scary news for bats … and anyone who cares about their welfare. A fungus with a creepy name right out of a Harry Potter spell — Pseudogymnoascus destructans — has been confirmed ...

The UK and Chile are proposing at the UN’s biodiversity conference COP16 in Colombia this week that fungi should receive a equal protection status to animals and plants. In the "Fungal ...

Immediately contact the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on 1800 675 888. Invasive diseases, fungi and parasites in Australia affect many native plants and animals and agricultural crops. Quite often ...